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Aug 3, 2006
"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, the it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." --Churchill
A Maid Becomes an Unlikely Star
Abandoned by her mother at 4, married off at 12 to an abusive husband, a mother herself at 13 -- there is little in Baby Halder’s traumatic childhood to suggest that she would become a famous author. But "A Life Less Ordinary," this season’s publishing sensation in India, is the result of her nighttime writing sessions, squeezed in after her housework duties were finished, when she poured raw memories of her early life into the lined exercise books. It all started at a retired Professor's house when Baby Halder got caught browsing books instead of dusting shelves, and the Professor handed her a notebook and a pen.
BE THE CHANGE
Dozens of studies have found that most people, from grade-schoolers to nursing-home residents, med students to prisoners, feel happier and healthier after writing about their deeply troubling memories. Learn more about journal therapy. More ...
